The rise of open standards, migration to service-oriented architectures and the rapid adoption of commodity infrastructures— not to mention the growing popularity of open source software— all pose challenges to established BI solutions created in previous technological eras, particularly in terms of scalability.

Not every BI provider seeks to serve the scalable enterprise, but those that do must meet certain scalability criteria that are common to nearly every enterprise. This investigation exposes key scalability requirements for BI, and examines how the world's most widely used BI solution— notably, one that's open source— meet these requirements.